1. Current vs. proposed procedures CURRENT PROCEDURE Each proposal author or authors chooses the college or discipline-based panel that they want their proposal reviewed by The panels convene and discuss the proposals, and assign scores. For each proposal, the median score is calculated after the top and bottom scores are removed. All proposals are pooled then ranked according to this score, awarded until resources are exhausted. PROPOSED PROCEDURE Each proposal author or authors chooses the college or discipline-based panel that they want their proposal reviewed by The panels convene and discuss the proposals, and assign scores. For each proposal, the median score is calculated after the top and bottom scores are removed. RCA ranks proposals by college and sets aside top two. All remaining proposals are pooled and ranked, awarded until resources are exhausted

2. 2004-2005 # of applications# of awards % of proposals awarded % of total awards Arts & Letters20630.00%18.75% Business10330.00%9.38% Education600.00% Engineering9333.33%9.38% Health & Human Services8450.00%12.50% Natural Sciences and Math301033.33%31.25% Social Sciences22627.27%18.75% Library000 Total1053230.48%

3. 2005-2006 # of applications# of awards % of proposals awarded% of total awards Arts & Letters25832.00%22.86% Business15426.67%11.43% Education1317.69%2.86% Engineering13430.77%11.43% Health & Human Services6466.67%11.43% Natural Sciences and Math371027.03%28.57% Social Sciences28414.29%11.43% Library00 Total1373525.55%

4. 2006-2007 # of applications# of awards % of proposals awarded % of total awards Arts & Letters22940.91%25.00% Business12433.33%11.11% Education900.00% Engineering13430.77%11.11% Health & Human Services5360.00%8.33% Natural Sciences and Math231147.83%30.56% Social Sciences15533.33%13.89% Library100.00% Total10036